BURGLAR'S GOOD-BYE

Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14601, 26 February 1921, Page 12 (Supplement)

BURGLAR'S GOOD-BYE

HANDSHAKE AND KISB FOR LADY. Burglars are not usually treated wiri hospitality, but an exception was ccrtrinly made by a Bristol lady, who came to the conclusion that soft words would avail morn than violent anger. In the early hours of the morning, Mrs G. M. Rowe, who lives in a flat in IChndalc read, Clifton, was awakened by a burglar, who, after being discovered, insisted upon kissing lie.-- and bidding farewell by a shake of the baud. Mrs Howe, who is the widow of an officer who fcli ii. the war. related that .-lie was awakened by someone moving about. she switched on Hie llghl, and in her dress-ing-gown cxainim d lii i premises. I'ud :r the stairs in a cupboard she found a '.'i-eat. burly man prospecting witli ;i candle. On being challenged he replieu ■■[l is quite all right, madam.! I will i~| hurt you. I haw taken nothing: von can search me." She replied, "11. is |'l,i|v| that a woman should lose a good husband in Ihe war and that men like you should be left to e0,,,e home. Yon had better gel, out."

"He seemed a little confused." adde I Mrs Rowe, "but I showed him to Hie door. Before he left he embraced me and asked me to Kiss him. He kissed me; hut, of course, I didn't Kiss him. lie then said: "Shake bauds, madam.

I mod-night." and wen| away. 1 saw Km turn away at Hie end of the garden t nth. | ihoughl ii best to humour him, even if he kissed me 20 times." One room bad been ransacked, but n, thing was missing save an apple-pi.• which the intruder had devoured. He |.;ol entered the flat by cutting Hie glass pi und a window-cati h. The police vere eal|e,| imuiedhltelv Hie man left, hul no trace of him could be f I.